This news story is from 2004. Had you heard it?

Question

This news story is from 2004 during the worst period of hysteria surrounding the imminent Antarctic meltdown theory. If a polar bear had been forced to swim 20 feet we would have heard, but we did not hear a peep out of these seekers of truth who could see no ice but not ice.

Russian Ice-breaker Krasin Heading For Antarctic To Rescue U.S. Polar Station McMurdo

VLADIVOSTOK (Anatoly Ilyukhov) - The Far-Eastern Marine Shipping Company's icebreaker Krasin leaves Vladivostok on Tuesday for the Antarctic to rescue the US polar station McMurdo. http://www.martechpolar.com/Polar%20News/krasinice2.jpg

According to the shipping company, the cruise to the Antarctic was ordered by the Russian government at the request by the US authorities for an ice-breaker to assist in urgently resupplying the US Antarctic mission.

Remember the ladies who were going to broadcast their swim to the North Pole back to their 4th grade classes. Did their frostbite finally clear up or they cripples forever?

Answer 1

We may not have heard of it mostly because the story does not appear to speak to any issue.

Perhaps your story line should be more than just a picture of a ship in ocean ice.

Just what was this intended to convey?

Answer 2

Sea ice comes and goes each Winter.  The concern over Antarctica is the melting of glaciers resting on bed-rock, not sea ice.  And the "hysteria" as you call it, most definitely was NOT at it's worst period in 2004.  We now know from satellite mass measurements that Antarctica is losing ice and with the recent ice-sheet collapse, serious concern is just beginning.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environme...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23797247/

By the way, your link is only to a picture. Here's the link you wanted:

http://www.martechpolar.com/Polar%20News...